International Migration Review


The International Migration Review (IMR) is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal created to encourage and facilitate the study of all aspects of international migration. Established in 1964, IMR is widely regarded as the leading scholarly journal in the field of international migration, ethnic group relations and refugee movements. It represents the single most comprehensive forum devoted exclusively to the analysis and review of international migration.
Direct questions to the IMR Editorial Office at [email protected].
Editor
Dr. Jamie Winders is Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. She was appointed editor of the International Migration Review, starting November 2017. Dr. Winders specializes in cultural and social geography and international migration. She co-edited The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Cultural Geography and published Nashville in the New Millennium: Immigrant Settlement, Urban Transformation, and Social Belonging with Russell Sage in 2013. She holds a PhD from the University of Kentucky.
Publishers may send books for review to Dr. Winders at the following address:
Jamie Winders
Department of Geography
144 Eggers Hall
The Maxwell School
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244
Associate Editors
Pieter Bevelander is professor of International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER) in the Department of Global Political Studies and Director of Malmö Institute of Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM) at Malmö University, Sweden. His main research field is international migration and different aspects of immigrant integration as well the reactions of natives towards immigrants and minorities. His latest research contains the socioeconomic and political impacts of citizenship ascension of immigrants and minorities in host societies and the attitudes of the native population on immigrants and other minority groups. He holds a PhD in economic history from the University of Lund, Sweden.
Marc Helbling is full professor for the Department of Sociology and the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) at the University of Mannheim and a Research Fellow at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. His research centers on immigration and citizenship policies, nationalism, national identities, xenophobia/islamophobia, and right-wing populism. His work has appeared in political science and sociology journals, including IMR. Marc edited the volume, Islamophobia in the West, and co-authored Political Conflict in Western Europe.
Amy Hsin is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology at Queens College, City University of New York. She has recently completed a study on the experiences of immigrant students at different City University of New York campuses, incorporating analysis of administrative data on undocumented college students in NYC and in-depth interviews of over 100 undocumented youth and their families. Her research interests include the impact of policing practices on Black/Latino and undocumented youth, the causes and consequences of Asian American achievement, and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients.
Erik Vickstrom is Senior Demographer and Group Lead for Demographic and Decennial Research at the U.S. Census Bureau’s Center for Economic Studies and Research Fellow at IZA – Institute of Labor Economics. His research has focused on the configurations and consequences of legal status of African migrants in Europe, the integration of the second generation in Spain, the contributions of emigrant communities to their origin countries, and the measurement of linguistic skills. In addition to his research, Erik has worked extensively overseas on statistical capacity-building efforts in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean, was one of the principal organizers of OECD’s first International Forum on Migration Statistics, and led the revision of the OECD’s Database on Immigrants in OECD Countries (DIOC).
Nathalie Williams is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on migration patterns, during periods of armed conflict, natural disasters and climate change, and social change. Her work considers why even during periods of intense conflict or drastic environmental change, many, if not most, people do not migrate. She has pioneered new data collection strategies, including using mobile phone call records to track migration and local mobility after violent events and natural disasters.
Editorial Board
John Anarfi
Social Demographer and Associate Professor, Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS), University of Ghana, Legon (post-retirement contract)
September 2021 to September 2024
Asad L. Asad
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Stanford University
July 2021 to July 2024
Oliver Bakewell
Senior Lecturer, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester
June 2020 to June 2023
Renato Graziano Battistella
General Secretary
Scalabrinian Missionaries
September 2021 to September 2024
Cris Beauchemin
Researcher, Institut National d’Études
Demographiques (INED)
September 2021 to September 2024
Irene Bloemraad
Professor of Sociology and Thomas Garden Barnes Chair in Canadian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
June 2020 to June 2023
Monica Boyd
Professor of Sociology and Canada Research Chair in Immigration, Inequality and Public Policy, University of Toronto
June 2020 to June 2023
Jorgen Carling
Research Director and Research Professor in Migration and Transnationalism, Peace Research Institute Oslo
September 2021 to September 2024
Barry R. Chiswick
Professor of International Affairs and Economics and Chair of the Department of Economics, The George Washington University
September 2021 to September 2024
Phillip Connor
Senior Demographic, FWD.US
June 2019 to June 2022
Katharine M. Donato
Donald G. Herzberg Chair in International Migration and Director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
June 2020 to June 2023
Nancy Foner
Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
September 2021 to September 2024
Eric Fong
Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, Director, Centre on Migration and Mobility, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Changjiang Chair Professor, Xi’an Jiaotong University
September 2021 to September 2024
Douglas Gurak
Professor Emeritus of Development Sociology, Cornell University
June 2020 to June 2023
Christian Joppke
Chair and Professor of General Sociology, University of Bern
September 2021 to September 2024
Donald Kerwin
Executive Editor, Journal on Migration and Human Security
Executive Director, Center for Migration Studies
Ex Officio
Ellen Percy Kraly
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies, Colgate University
September 2021 to September 2024
Alan Kraut
Professor of History, American University
June 2020 to June 2023
Jennifer Lee
Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
June 2020 to June 2023
Gracia Liu-Farrer
Professor of Sociology, Waseda University
June 2020 to June 2023
Philip Martin
Professor Emeritus of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Chair of the UC Comparative Immigration and Integration Program, University of California, Davis
September 2021 to September 2024
Valentina Mazzucato
Professor of Globalisation and Development, Maastricht University
January 2021 to January 2024
Cecilia Menjívar
Professor of Sociology and Dorothy L. Meier Social Equities Chair, University of California, Los Angeles
September 2021 to September 2024
Pyong Gap Min
Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Director of the Research Center for Korean Community, Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
September 2021 to September 2024
Hiroshi Motomura
Susan Westerberg Prager Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law
September 2021 to September 2024
Pia Orrenius
Vice President and Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
September 2021 to September 2024
Alejandro Portes
Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Princeton University
Research Professor, Department of Sociology and School of Law, University of Miami
June 2019 to June 2022
Rubén G. Rumbaut
Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
September 2021 to September 2024
Audrey Singer
Specialist in Immigration Policy, Domestic Social Policy Division, Congressional Research Service
September 2021 to September 2024
Ronald Skeldon
Professor in Human Geography, Graduate School of Governance, Maastricht University
June 2020 to June 2023
Kevin Thomas
Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies
The University of Texas at Austin
September 2021 to September 2024
Reverend Lydio F. Tomasi
Executive Director Emeritus, Center for Migration Studies
Ex Officio
Archbishop Silvano Tomasi
Former Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations and Specialized Organization in Geneva, Switzerland and to the World Trade Organization
Ex Officio
Mary C. Waters
PVK Professor of Arts and Sciences and John L. Loeb Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
June 2020 to June 2023
Biao Xiang
Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford
Member, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society
September 2021 to September 2024
Brenda S.A. Yeoh
Professor of Geography, National University of Singapore
January 2021 to January 2024
Madeline Zavodny
Professor of Economics, Coggin School of Business, University of North Florida
Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Fellow at the Global Labor Organization
Adjunct Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute
September 2021 to September 2024
Yu Zhu
Professor of Geography, Fujian Normal University in China
Director, Center for Population and Development Research, Fujian Normal University
Distinguished Professor, Asian Demographic Research Institute, Shanghai University
September 2021 to September 2024
Ayman Zohry
Founding President and President, The Egyptian Society for Migration Studies (EGYMIG)
Adjunct Professor, Center for Migration and Refugee Studies, American University in Cairo
September 2021 to September 2024